Fun to Play Open Source Real-Time Strategy Games – Fight for Glory
RTS games have a large fan base since their inception. This game genre requires cunning, creativity, and the ability to devise innovative strategies to usurp your opponents. Some of the best known proprietary RTS series are Warcraft, Starcraft, Command & Conquer, and Age of Empires.

The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over six million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki. Read more

Florence is a virtual keyboard for GNOME that appears on screen. It is adapted for people who are able to use a pointing device but have difficulties using a real keyboard. It aims at being easy and pretty. Read more

Js2mouse converts joystick events into mouse events, so the user can use his joystick/gamepad as a pointer instead of the mouse. It works with any kind of joystick (analogic or digital) and with any kind of program (X, GPM, etc.). Js2mouse doesn't need root privileges. It can emulate PS/2 and IMPS/2 protocols, and joystick keys can be assigned.

kbtrap is a program that monitors a keyboard for events and executes commands when selected keys are pressed/released. It is implemented as a server/client connected by pipes for flexibility. Possible uses for this include using a keyboard/numpad to control applications such as media players, media centers (using a remote that identifies itself as a keyboard), kiosks, and anything that needs to perform special events on certain keyboard events.

a keyboard layout indicator for KDE 2 or 3. It is useful when you have configured the XKeyboard extension of your X Server to have more than one keyboard group (layout), for example US/ASCII and Russian

KLeds is a little program for the KDE Desktop Environment. It shows up in the KDE Panel and displays the current state of the keyboard indicator LED's (NumLock, ScrollLock and CapsLock). It is extremly useful, if you own a Keyboard like the Logitech Cordless Desktop or any other keyboard without LED's.

ksuperkey is a small utility that allows you to use your Super key (sometimes called Meta or Windows key) to open your application menu, while keeping the functionality to use Super in keyboard shortcuts.

mx5000tools is a set of tools to control the LCD that is part of the keyboard that comes with the Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 Laser. These tools make it possible to control what is displayed on the LCD and to use some of the keys that are not recognized by the stock Linux HID driver.

mxk is a programmable userspace input rewriting system. It can be used to implement complex input translations such as on the fly keymap switch between dvorak and querty, chord-based braille entry
, macro recording, and virtual mouse controlled from the keypad.

OneStroke is a freehand gesture character input program. Gestures consist of one mouse stroke drawn on the program drawing pad. Each gesture symbol has an X11 keycode and modifiers associated with it. A keyboard event is generated using the XTest extension and sent to the focused window with each gesture as if typed on the keyboard.

oscjoy is a command-line program that lets you use any connected joysticks as OpenSoundControl devices. It should work under any operating system that is supported by the SDL library. Pre-built executables are included for SUSE Linux (9.1+), MacOS/X (10.3+), and Windows XP.

a simple Linux/QT program with a friendly interface that lets you use your gaming devices where you want them: in your games! QJoyPad takes input from a gamepad or joystick and translates it into key strokes or mouse actions, letting you control any XWindows program with your gaming device

Swinput can fake a mouse and a keyboard by using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fakes hardware event (mouse motion, key presses etc) as commands written on the devices. Swinput presents status etc on the proc filesystem.

gives you the ability to take those useless keys, that you're certain would have been better fashioned as something else, and turn them into something useful. It started out as a simple hack to remap the caps lock key to a control key, but has since evolved into a fairly sophisticated means of remapping many of the modifier keys

Wacom Intuos3 ExpressKeys support allows the ExpressKeys and Touch Strips of a Wacom Intuos3 tablet or a Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display to be supported through the use of the XInput and XTest extensions in X. Using "xsetwacom", it can provide an automatic change of stylus pressure sensitivity (a.k.a. PressCurve) when going from one program window to the next. This feature is independent of the connected tablet model. A graphical configuration tool named "wacom-config" is under development.

control X from the command line for scripts, and do "visual scraping" to find things on the screen. The conrol interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, and uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events

The purpose of Xhotkeys is to provide a simple and easy configurable hotkey launcher for the X-Window System. It should work on all desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ...) available for GNU/Linux. Although Xhotkeys has a graphical GTK+ configurator, it's possible to manage the configuration file manually.

a graphical front-end to xmodmap. It opens a window that looks like a keyboard; moving the mouse over a key shows what KeySyms and Modifier bits that key generates. Clicking on a key simulates KeyPress/KeyRelease events on the window of your choice. It is possible to change the KeySyms and Modifiers generated by a key through a mouse-based interface

xlax is an X11 input multiplexer: it sends your keyboard input from the xlax window to a group of windows simultaneously. The tool is designed for system administrators who typically have to do the same thing on several machines (or in several different directories).

xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System which provides facility to enter characters onto other clients (softwares) by clicking on a keyboard displayed on the screen. Read more

a keyboard layout switcher and indicator. Unlike the
programs that reload keyboard maps and use their own hotkeys, xxkb is a
simple GUI for XKB (X KeyBoard extension) and just sends commands to and
accepts events from XKB. Than means that it will work with the existing
setup of your X Server without any modifications

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